Bruno Wolff III writes:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:43:14PM +0000,
> >
> > There may be some point of argument if the quoted portion can be accurately
> > transcribed as an an RFC822 atom, in which case an argument can be made
> > that quotes can be stripped. However, stripping quotes unilaterally is a
> > completely broken behavior.
>
> I disagree. It is pretty clear that semanticly the quotes are not part
> of the local address. This allows you to put characters in the local
> part of the address that would conflict with other things allowed by
> rfc 821, such as routing information and the like.
>
> SMTP servers that treat "local"@example.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
> different are broken.
Only if the SMTP servers in question actually store the mailboxes for the
example.com domain, and even then that is still arguable.
Intermediate mails ervers really shouldn't mess around with things that do
not concern them. Perhaps the local portion of the address contains
characters which may not be RFC822 tokens, but still may require quoting by
the recipient's server.
If you do not handle the mail for example.com, don't screw around with
example.com's local address. Just pass it along to example.com, and let
them deal with it.
--
Sam
